Jena Termini enjoys the whole process of making ice cream. "I love to cook, I love to translate that into manufacturing," said the owner of Shirley’s What’s the Scoop? ice cream shop. But nothing compares to the pleasure she gets from watching her patrons sample the fruits of her labor.

"When they taste the ice cream," she said, "I can see their faces light up. I can see them getting the flavor that hits at the beginning, and then at the end. It’s the most gratifying thing, owning a place where people come and are happy."

This is a second time around for Termini, who owned Ben & Jen’s ice cream shop here from 1999 to 2003. She sold the business when it began to compete with her young children for attention; now that they are grown (and old enough to help), she has come back.

In between her two tenures, the building served as a Ralph’s Famous Italian Ices, and you can still get ices (both water and cream) that Termini makes herself. But the focus of the cheerful, freestanding store is ice cream, more than 40 flavors including almond joy, butter pecan, chocolate peanut butter fudge, cotton candy, cherry pistachio, jelly ring fudge, Nutella, piña colada, rum raisin, strawberry cheesecake and vanilla chocolate chip — plus shakes, sundaes, floats, "Arctic Blasts" (soft-serve swirled with toppings), cakes, ice-cream novelties (premade confections) that you pluck right from the freezer. And Termini is just getting started; What’s the Scoop? only opened on May 1.

What's the Scoop?, 60 Surrey Circle, Shirley, 631-657-6484